Web filters, acceptable use policies, and student information sessions alone are simply not effective at addressing digital citizenship.
compares the major themes of five popular models: ISTE’s NETS for Students, Ribble and Bailey’s Digital Citizenship in Schools, the iKeepSafe Digital Citizenship C3 Matrix, Microsoft’s Digital Citizenship and Creative Content program, and Protecting Students in the 21st Century from SimpleK12.
I thought this was had some great language that could be used for technology planning. I like these guidelines for developing digital literacy guidelines...
The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age.
When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal.
"My desire to digitally document these "evidences" of her learning in elementary school are strongly influenced by H. Songhai's 2008 K-12 Online Conference presentation, "What Did You Do in School Yesterday, Today, and Three Years Ago," and my experiences last May with my son documented in the post, "Throwing away 6th grade - OR - The case for online portfolios."
The goal of this collaborative wiki is to "unmask the digital truth" with respect to the reasons some leaders today are overfiltering and overblocking web 2.0 sites in schools and libraries, and provide reasonable alternatives which support broader student and teacher access to these sites.
All the sites listed in Kids Love 2Learn.ca are interactive or multimedia sites, selected by teachers and a digital librarian, related to topics in our Alberta curriculum. New sites are added all the time.